Good morning Chamber world! Today is going to be a GREAT day!
Celebrate
Your Successes in Indiana
Chamber of Commerce Week: May 4 - 8, 2015
Chamber of Commerce Week: May 4 - 8, 2015
May
4 - 8 is your time to celebrate all of the positive attributes your chamber
brings to the community that you serve. You can find additional ideas for
Chamber Week here.
Watch your inbox for weekly updates, press information and social media hashtag. Feel free to copy the Chamber of Commerce Week logo on your website or in promotional materials. Consider having a Mayoral Proclamation signed to recognize all of the great work your local chamber does for the business community. Start small with this first-year endeavor and please let us know what your chamber plans to do for this week in May so that ideas can be shared with peers around the state.
Kentucky Chamber Leaders to visit Japan, court Japanese investors
More than 30 delegates from the Kentucky Chamber of Commerce will be meeting with approximately 100 Japanese companies doing business in Kentucky at an event at the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo later this month.Hosted by U.S. Ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy, the event will honor Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear and Toyota’s significant presence in Kentucky. Toyota Motor Manufacturing of Kentucky President Wil James, Jr., who serves as the Kentucky Chamber’s board chairman, is leading the delegation of Chamber board members and government officials for an eight-day business mission in partnership with the governor’s office and the Kentucky Cabinet for Economic Development.
“Kentucky has a crucial relationship with Japan,” says Kentucky Chamber President Dave Adkisson. “Our key purpose of this trip is to say ‘thank you’ to the 170 Japanese companies that have operations in Kentucky. Not only are Toyota and its suppliers integral to our economic future, but we also have significant investments with Brown-Forman corporation, Beam Suntory and many others.” Read more: Kentucky Chamber
Carol Stream Chamber "Women in Business" Offers an exciting event: "Tables of Interest"
Later in the month is the always
exciting, never dull "Tables of
Interest." It's a progressive luncheon on April 29th which translates into meeting MORE people at one
event. It's a Women In Business event but I think the smartest men attend the
WIB events. They are always open to non-members, too.
Unlike a traditional Progressive lunch where you receive the table numbers, YOU CHOOSE which tables you go to by INTEREST. And we have some great themes this year --
Cooking, Wine, Enjoy Illinois, A Taste of Technology/Apps, Weekend Getaways, Girls Night Out, Gardening, Fitness and Diet, Thrill Seekers, Skincare, Healthy Eating . Hope you can attend! -Luanne
Unlike a traditional Progressive lunch where you receive the table numbers, YOU CHOOSE which tables you go to by INTEREST. And we have some great themes this year --
Cooking, Wine, Enjoy Illinois, A Taste of Technology/Apps, Weekend Getaways, Girls Night Out, Gardening, Fitness and Diet, Thrill Seekers, Skincare, Healthy Eating . Hope you can attend! -Luanne
Register
Online
Women In Business Luncheon 04/29/15
Tables of Interest
#BestChamber solutions: Online and offline chamber surveys
#BestChamber solutions: Online and offline surveys and other information: - there is no need to guess anymore about what your members are thinking. Use readily avail able tools and be able to present facts to define problem areas and give background on kudos for successes.
1. One free hi-tech solution is through the use of www.SurveyMonkey.com
2. For chambers using Microsoft Outlook:
Create and send a voting poll in an email message - It is easy to create a poll in Microsoft Outlook by including voting buttons in an email message that you are sending. Recipients' votes are delivered to your Inbox. Note A Microsoft Exchange Server account is required.
Step 1: Create a new email message, or open a message that you want to reply to or forward.
Step 2: On the Options tab, in the Tracking group, click Use Voting Buttons
For more information on this, use the help feature, search for polls.
3. Constant Contact has a survey feature. If your chamber is not using Constant Contact, you should ask for more information from them. Their service (as of this date) is free to chambers.
4. Another amazingly effective low-tech solution is to hand each member a 3" X 5" card with one question to answer at every event.
- John Dussman
The Greater Richmond Chamber’s i.e. startup competition is back, and this year’s contest features a new prize for a new business that could have a major charitable impact.
The fourth annual competition will again give $10,000 to a business — selected by judges who are local entrepreneurs and venture capitalists — that is determined to be the region’s best startup.
The ingredients exist to make Arkansas a place where tech-based entrepreneurship can thrive.
Public and private resources such as the Arkansas Economic Development Commission’s Innovate Arkansas program have helped bolster tech-based startups by providing quality and sustained mentorship to assist in business and financial model development, along with guidance in preparing those startups to present their products to investors.
Plus, the overall access to seed capital in Arkansas has increased dramatically with the development of nine new private investment groups in the last four years. Perhaps the last piece of the puzzle necessary to develop a truly viable tech startup ecosystem is an increased focus on the growth of local tech talent.
Peter Barth believes Little Rock can follow the model set by Greenville, South Carolina, where he launched the Iron Yard coding school.
The Iron Yard sets up shop in downtown Little Rock in May, when it will begin intensive courses in front-end engineering, rails engineering and mobile engineering. The school was recruited to Little Rock by Innovate Arkansas and serial entrepreneur/investor Kristian Andersen of Conway.
Barth launched the school in 2013 to help infuse Greenville’s budding tech startup ecosystem with homegrown talent. His Iron Yard Ventures accelerator was pumping out startups, but those companies had to look out of state for the technical talent they needed. Read more: Arkansas Business
Today, U.S. Representative Candice Miller (MI-10) joined members of the Blue Water Area Chamber of Commerce at their annual State of the County luncheon where she, along with Michigan Lieutenant Governor Brian Calley, met with local business leaders.
“St. Clair has experienced a boom of new economic development that has led to job growth and greater opportunities for local residents,” Miller said. “This economic expansion, driven by business leaders across the county, has made the Blue Water Area a great destination for tourists and an amazing place to call home. I tremendously enjoyed meeting with them today, and I commend them on their success.” Read more: U.S. Representative Candice Miller
Dental Associates is South Suburban (Wisconsin) Chamber’s 2014 Business of the Year
#BestChamber solutions: Online and offline chamber surveys
#BestChamber solutions: Online and offline surveys and other information: - there is no need to guess anymore about what your members are thinking. Use readily avail able tools and be able to present facts to define problem areas and give background on kudos for successes.
1. One free hi-tech solution is through the use of www.SurveyMonkey.com
2. For chambers using Microsoft Outlook:
Create and send a voting poll in an email message - It is easy to create a poll in Microsoft Outlook by including voting buttons in an email message that you are sending. Recipients' votes are delivered to your Inbox. Note A Microsoft Exchange Server account is required.
Step 1: Create a new email message, or open a message that you want to reply to or forward.
Step 2: On the Options tab, in the Tracking group, click Use Voting Buttons
For more information on this, use the help feature, search for polls.
3. Constant Contact has a survey feature. If your chamber is not using Constant Contact, you should ask for more information from them. Their service (as of this date) is free to chambers.
4. Another amazingly effective low-tech solution is to hand each member a 3" X 5" card with one question to answer at every event.
- John Dussman
Greater Richmond Chamber's i.e. contest adds prize for social innovation
The Greater Richmond Chamber’s i.e. startup competition is back, and this year’s contest features a new prize for a new business that could have a major charitable impact.
The fourth annual competition will again give $10,000 to a business — selected by judges who are local entrepreneurs and venture capitalists — that is determined to be the region’s best startup.
Another $10,000 prize will be
given to the best social innovation startup, which the chamber said is
designed to recognize a startup such as a B-corporation that supports
charitable organizations.
One company also will win $2,500 if it is voted the People’s Choice Award winner during the event’s finals in May.
Applications will be accepted until April 20 at www.ie-rva.org. Entry to the contest is free.
Little Rock chamber funding: Tech Talent Development the Next Phase for Innovate Arkansas
The ingredients exist to make Arkansas a place where tech-based entrepreneurship can thrive.
Public and private resources such as the Arkansas Economic Development Commission’s Innovate Arkansas program have helped bolster tech-based startups by providing quality and sustained mentorship to assist in business and financial model development, along with guidance in preparing those startups to present their products to investors.
Plus, the overall access to seed capital in Arkansas has increased dramatically with the development of nine new private investment groups in the last four years. Perhaps the last piece of the puzzle necessary to develop a truly viable tech startup ecosystem is an increased focus on the growth of local tech talent.
Peter Barth believes Little Rock can follow the model set by Greenville, South Carolina, where he launched the Iron Yard coding school.
The Iron Yard sets up shop in downtown Little Rock in May, when it will begin intensive courses in front-end engineering, rails engineering and mobile engineering. The school was recruited to Little Rock by Innovate Arkansas and serial entrepreneur/investor Kristian Andersen of Conway.
Barth launched the school in 2013 to help infuse Greenville’s budding tech startup ecosystem with homegrown talent. His Iron Yard Ventures accelerator was pumping out startups, but those companies had to look out of state for the technical talent they needed. Read more: Arkansas Business
Rep. Miller Attends Blue Water Area Chamber of Commerce Annual State of the County Event
Today, U.S. Representative Candice Miller (MI-10) joined members of the Blue Water Area Chamber of Commerce at their annual State of the County luncheon where she, along with Michigan Lieutenant Governor Brian Calley, met with local business leaders.
“St. Clair has experienced a boom of new economic development that has led to job growth and greater opportunities for local residents,” Miller said. “This economic expansion, driven by business leaders across the county, has made the Blue Water Area a great destination for tourists and an amazing place to call home. I tremendously enjoyed meeting with them today, and I commend them on their success.” Read more: U.S. Representative Candice Miller
Dental Associates is South Suburban (Wisconsin) Chamber’s 2014 Business of the Year
Dental Associates was named as the
South Suburban Chamber’s 2014 Business of the Year at its Annual Awards Dinner
on February 4, 2015. The award is given to a successful business that has also
contributed to the community and has been active in the Chamber.
Dr. Donald Gundlach accepted the
award from Chamber president, Paul Beitzel, Executive Director, Barbara Wesener
and Coreen Dicus Johnson, president of Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare, Central
Market and last year’s Business of the Year.
Dental Associates has a dental center at 6855
S. 27th Street in Franklin, has been active in the community since the location
opened four years ago. It is also the largest family-owned dental group
practice in Wisconsin with 12 locations throughout the state.
“We truly believe in investing in
the communities we serve and all of our employees have a deep commitment to our
patients and their wellbeing,” says Dr. Donald Gundlach, clinic director of the
Franklin dental center.
Mississippi economic development chief Brent Christensen announced Wednesday that he’s stepping down from his statewide post to return to local economic development in North Carolina.
Christensen, executive director of the Mississippi Development Authority since April 2012, will become the new CEO of the Greensboro Partnership by no later than June 1. Having earned a bachelor’s degree in economics and public policy studies from Duke University in Durham, the 45-year-old said he had always been interested in returning to the state.
“North Carolina has played a significant role in my life,” Christensen said in a phone interview. “My wife and I thought this would be a great place to land someday.”
Gov. Phil Bryant said MDA Chief Administrative Officer Manning McPhillips will run the state business and community development agency until a new executive director can be chosen. Read more: Washington Times
Famous Chamber of Commerce Quotations: (Attitude)
Brent Christensen leaving Mississippi economic development post
Mississippi economic development chief Brent Christensen announced Wednesday that he’s stepping down from his statewide post to return to local economic development in North Carolina.
Christensen, executive director of the Mississippi Development Authority since April 2012, will become the new CEO of the Greensboro Partnership by no later than June 1. Having earned a bachelor’s degree in economics and public policy studies from Duke University in Durham, the 45-year-old said he had always been interested in returning to the state.
“North Carolina has played a significant role in my life,” Christensen said in a phone interview. “My wife and I thought this would be a great place to land someday.”
Gov. Phil Bryant said MDA Chief Administrative Officer Manning McPhillips will run the state business and community development agency until a new executive director can be chosen. Read more: Washington Times
Famous Chamber of Commerce Quotations: (Attitude)
“The
best things in life aren’t things.” Art Buchwald
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